Today we already reported about NVIDIA plans to develop concept GPGPU (calculations of general purpose on graphic processor). The fact that NVIDIA G 80 is something much larger than simply graphic processor, and this became clear sufficiently long time ago. However, in the opinion of contributor , G80 is capable to substitute CPU practically in everything.
NVIDIA created for G80 the standardized computational architecture CUDA (Compute unified device architecture), which includes SDK, API and compiler s. CUDA derives G80 beyond the framework of its basic tasks, assuming the use of device and as 128- nuclear universal processor with the general cache (Parallel data cache). But the peak performance of the floating arithmetic for the new accelerator exceeds any accessible now desktop processors.
Finally, is given unofficial information about the fact that several engineers OF AMD, after studying the architecture Of g80, arrived at the conclusion about its similarity with the architecture of x86- processors.
Thus, completely it can seem that NVIDIA are nearer to the creation of absolutely universal processor, than AMD - to the realization Of fusion.